Monday, 30 May 2011

Purple Haze

Nothing like a birthday to get the crafting juices pumping!

After an afternoon of knitting... frogging and knitting again (wrong size needles/yarn problems) I needed a break from the pressure of knitting very plain and simple things wrong so I got the wheel out and finally plied my lovely "Jump for my Love" Uk shetland dyed my Spinning a Yarn. I had this for my birthday and actually finished spinning it a while ago but I run out of bobbins to ply it (poor planning obviously)

so here is it's journey :)

The Fibre Braid

Bobbin loaded with single one

Single two!

First I split the fibre by splitting the braid length ways down the middle and then spun it worsted... once spun into these two singles I plied them together into a lovely fingering weight yarn... the effect is so beautiful.

There is 120m of it and it is lovely and squishy although I have no idea what to make with it yet !

So now the blog is done I guess I should continue with the birthday crafting.... or maybe a bit of relaxation spinning :)

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Well I am the mother of 4 incredible children... I have a passion for making things but sometimes not the skill to match but I love trying. I am very happily married to Simon and the harrassed human mama to 2 cats called Ronan, the tubby siamese and Khamsin the fierce mama cat!